Alternative play command under Linux

[Rob van Son]

There are currently recurrent problems with Praat audio on Linux. While these are dealt with by the maintainers of Praat, I have added a way to specify an alternative way to play audio to work around this problem.

Make sure you have a player installed that can be called from the command line. This example will use aplay (Alsa, Linux) and play (Sox, macintosh).
https://jordilin.wordpress.com/2006/07/28/howto-recording-audio-from-the-command-line/

In your home directory, locate the following settings directory. If you cannot find it, start up SGC and close it again once. The directory should have been created.
Linux:
.SpeakGoodChinese2/TTS

Mac OSX*:
~/Library/Preferences/SpeakGoodChinese2/TTS

Create the file with the name below in this directory:
TTS_UNIX_record_command.txt

Start the file with a single line of text:
Linux:
aplay -q 

Macintosh:
/opt/local/bin/play -q

Note that the position of the filename of the recorder at the end of the line is left blank. SGC will fill this value.

You can change the recording parameters to your liking. It might work with other recorders. But they should record when called as:
<your command line> <filename>

From this moment on, SpeakGoodChinese will use this command to play speech. Currently, I have not been able to get this tested on Windows.

*: To access the Library directory on Mac OSX, see 

http://www.macworld.com/article/2057221/how-to-view-the-library-folder-in-mavericks.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/access-hidden-user-library-files.html